“Time and connection have brought us to a moment where we have a real opportunity to pass the Equality Act to update our civil rights laws for the modern era,” writes Mary Bonauto ’87, civil rights project director at GLAD, in an op-ed for USA Today.
“The plan to electrify Boston’s school buses by 2030 “is absolutely the right move,” says Staci Rubin ’10, vice president of environmental justice at the Conservation Law Foundation. “Electric school buses dramatically improve air quality and our children deserve to be in a tailpipe emissions-free vehicle.”
“We’re already seeing obviously tremendous strain on the healthcare system right now,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells News@Northeastern . “We seem to be at the cusp of what might be the tripledemic.”
“There are people who simply do not have connection to health services, for many reasons, mainly poverty related, but also some historic mistreatment and distrust,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP tells Bloomberg Law. “Extra work has to be done to overcome that history of inferior service and inferior service access.”
“It is far beyond time to turn the page—to move on from a punishment that, while deeply rooted in our history, has never proven worthy of retention,” write Professors Michael Meltsner and Daniel Medwed in a co-authored piece for Slate.
“For me, being alive means learning, it means being involved,” says Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, who recently celebrated 52 years of teaching at the school of law.
"Preemptive voluntary tech transfer by companies and capacity investments by governments could and should begin now, even as the waiver text is being negotiated," writes Professor Brook Baker '76 in his latest blog for Health GAP.
"This pandemic won’t end if policy solutions prioritize keeping Big Pharma happy by pursuing one-sided compromise while millions of people are getting sick and dying due to lack of access to life-saving vaccines," writes Professor Brook Baker '76 in his latest Health GAP blog.
Alvin Carter III ’18, an associate in Rudick Brown’s corporate practice group, is featured as a Rising Star in the Boston Bar Association’s Spotlight Series.